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Saturday, February 12, 2011

It's Fisher vs. Foppa at the Bridgestone and Saturday Round-Up

Thanks to Danielle Browne for our picture of Peter Forsberg.

Mike Fisher will play against Peter Forsberg tonight in the highlight of today's NHL action. And oh, by the way, they will bring the Nashville Predators (29-18-7) and the Colorado Avalanche (25-24-6) along with them to fill out the rosters when the puck is dropped at the sold out Bridgestone arena at 7 p.m. Central.

The number one key to the game tonight for the Predators is to overcome all the Mike Fisher hype that has run rampant in Smashville for the last 48 hours and play a good solid hockey game against a team that is mired in a six game losing streak and has not looked good in the process.

As David Poile clearly stated Fisher "is not a savior" but should put the team back in the position it was in before Matt Lombardi went down in the Preds' second game of the season. Don't judge Fisher by what he does tonight because he is yet to have a practice with the full squad.

Colorado avoided bringing it's "counter-hype" by having the return of Forsberg last night in Columbus where the Avs lost 3-1 and did not look good in doing so. Adrian Dater has a postgame video of Foppa's reaction to his first game back. He already appeared to be playing at a higher level than the rest of the team that has payed all year.

It seems like it has been a long time since the Predators big 4-1 win in Detroit on Wednesday night. Hopefully, that will help them forget that in spite of two wins over Detroit in the last week that they are mired in a 2-4-1 slum and really need to put together a win streak to regain lost ground in the tough Western Conference.

The Predators have fallen to sixth in the west (65 points) while the Avalanche have dropped all the way to 14th (56points) during their respective slides.

Pekka Rinne (19-14-5, 2.08, .930) will be in goal for the Predators while it appears Peter Budaj (12-9-3, 3.03, .898) will start the for the second night in a row with Craig Anderson out until Monday dealing with personal issue (birth of a child per Scott Laughlin of XM's power play). John Grahame (0-0-0, 0.00, .000) is also available for the Avs.

After tonight's game, the Predators have a tough week ahead, albeit at home, with San Jose, Vancouver, and Phoenix all visiting Bridgestone Arena.

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